DISCOnnections: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra LeoneThis book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations and the diverse patterns of social dis connections that music helps to shape, to (re)create, and to defy in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. The first half of